Beast Business is a novella taking place some years after the original Hidden Legacy trilogy about the illusion Prime Augustine Montgomery and animal Prime Diana Harrison. While Augustine had a recurring role in those books we learned almost nothing about his power or private life and what little we learned of Diana came from the perspective of her brother, so I was looking forward to learning more about her abilities. The cub of Diana's strange tiger-like animal summoned from the Arcane realm has been stolen and she needs the help of an investigator like Augustine to find it before it dies. The companion short story with the cringe worthy title "Arabella saves the day" covers the same day from Arabella's PoV as she works on a different case. 

Like the second trilogy of the Hidden Legacy series. I found this novella disappointing because it lacked the sarcastic wit of Nevada's PoV although, to be fair, at least I can praise the authors for giving each character their own "voice". Despite the two characters occasionally reminding themselves that they didn't have time to be attracted to the other I didn't sense any chemistry between them in the dialog. Again, there is the issue that Diana's training as a child was to avoid forming attachments with those around her. On the plus side, there was a lot about Augustine I wouldn't have guessed, and both Primes exposed the secrets and misconceptions of their powers. And hey, we finally learned why Augustine was using so much illusion power on his face as Rogan noted in the first book.

I enjoyed Arabella's story more because the witty PoV was back. Now nineteen, Arabella has come a long way from the girl struggling to control her anger issues and desperate to prove the value of her metamorphosis. She turns into a gigantic demonic looking beast just like her father's surrogate mother, but unlike that unfortunate woman, Arabella retains her reason and was acknowledged as a Prime by the council. It's still a tough task for the cute petite blonde to get a daughter of the famously meat-headed Madero House to tell her what she did with her ex-boyfriend and why. But thanks to their shared strength and anger issues, Arabella may have just made her first friend.

There are also two other previously published short stories included.